One of the book world's publishing's greatest mysteries is finally ending: J.D. Salinger's son says previously unpublished work by his late father will be coming out.
In comments which appeared Friday in The Guardian, Matt Salinger confirmed longstanding reports that the author “The Catcher in the Rye” had continued to write decades after he stopped publishing books. He said that he and Salinger's widow, Colleen, are “going as fast as we freaking can” to prepare the material for release.
“He wanted me to pull it together, and because of the scope of the job, he knew it would take a long time,” Salinger said of his father, who died in 2010 and had not published work since the mid-1960s.
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